Charcoal Community

Charcoal Photo

This is about 100 hours in to trying to replicate an old photo in charcoal. It still looks rough but I think I still have a good 40 hours to go. (Note the photo is mine and is not anything recent. Im retired now)

Ghost (COD) portrait

Done with graphite and charcoal. Cause of the finish spray, I have to hold down the paper.

Yuno Gasai sketching

Just sketching it before I begin to shade with charcoal.

My Cat 💖

I made a charcoal drawing of my cat for my homework assignment. I am proud of it. I should take a better photo of my art, though, I took it at night.😅

Poza horyzont / Beyond the horizon

Węgiel nocy i kreda poranka, Świat rozpięty na drutach trakcji Gdzie kończy się czas, a zaczyna czekanie? Stalowa rzeka płynie pod prąd nieba Niosąc ciszę tam, gdzie wzrok nie sięga Poza horyzont --- The charcoal of night and the chalk of morning, A world strung on overhead wires Where does time... read more

Old poem :P

“Letters from the Painter” "He writes to me from cities that smell of rain and old museums. His letters arrive slowly— like migrating birds that remember my window. Inside them there are stories of colors. Of a river in Florence that refused to stay still long enough to be painted. Of a woman... read more